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David Stockman's Contra Corner

The AI Stock Madness—A Central Bankers’ Bubble Like Never Before - If the Fed were a major league pitcher, it would have been sent back to the minors or even released on waivers long ago. That’s because it hasn’t hit it’...
Watts Up With That?

Bipolar Penguins: Thriving on Tuesday, Dying on Wednesday, Climate Change Blamed for Both - Two news reports present Antarctic penguins as both thriving and collapsing, with climate change blamed for each outcome. The article humorously exposes ...
Techdirt

DNC Sues Trump For Wasting $20 Million In Taxpayer Dollars On Ineffective Midterm Propaganda - The Democratic party has announced they’re suing Donald Trump for his recent attempt to flood the midterm airwaves with propaganda he’s falsely claiming ar...
Futurism

Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories - Parent-child bonding time isn't so sacred that it can't be optimized with AI. The post Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model ...
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Shane Te Pou – Drug testing jobseekers is a cheap trick from a government in trouble - Kia ora koutou. Look, I’ll be straight with you. National’s plan to randomly drug test people on Jobseeker isn’t welfare...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Peter Bergen - The title of Peter Bergen’s latest book ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR is a misnomer. The War on Terror did not begin on...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

You’re Invited to the Next Metropolitan Review Party! - October 15th. It’s the soiree of the season.
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 9-October-2026 - Kia ora and welcome to our regular roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, we took some time to analys...
JoNova

Western civilization is worth defending - By Jo Nova On October 7th Marco Rubio made a speech for the ages in Athens, with the Parthenon as his backdrop. The West has lost its way, he says, and ...
Cato at Liberty

Prediction Markets Should Not Be Subject to Fragmented Regulation - A federal judge has preliminarily ruled that, for the sports contracts at issue, federal law likely overrides Illinois’s demand that prediction market exch...
Tim Worstall

This is a surprise to whom? - But the population that’s experiencing one of the fastest rises in shigella infection are gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (GBMS...
The Free Press

Douglas Murray: What Will Happen to Europe If America Leaves? - The departure of U.S. bombers from Britain may be a final warning to European leaders with no interest in fighting back against enemies of the West, writes...
Macroscience

Kevin Bryan on AI and Innovation - Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Lecture 7
Truth on the Market

AI Insurance and the Backstop Reflex: A Policy for Every Risk, a Taxpayer for Every Loss - Washington has a standard playbook when it comes to emerging commercial risks: Make companies buy insurance coverage, then put taxpayers behind the losse...
The Inquiring Mind

Accountability is good - The Herald reports: Tauranga City Council chief executive Marty Grenfell has resigned after councillors held an emergency closed-door meeting this … Accoun...
Conversable Economist

A Tax-Side Agenda for Addressing US Budget Deficits - Om 2026, the federal government is on track to spend $7.4 trillion, and $1.9 trillion–about one-quarter of the total–will be newly borrowed money. It’s o...
No Minister

General Debate Without Moderation - Yesterday 72 Views and 8 Comments Random Drug Testing of Jobseeker Beneficiaries – Yes or No?
The Daily Sceptic

My Therapist Told Me to Go for a Walk. London Had Other Ideas - Is it any wonder there’s a mental health crisis when the state of the country is so depressing, asks Arthur Ellis, whose own 'mental health walks' around...
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 9 October 2026 - ELECTION 2026 – POLLS
Spiked Online

A reckoning with the ADHD industry is long overdue - The post A reckoning with the ADHD industry is long overdue appeared first on spiked.
Marginal Revolution

Predictions for economics, given AI - From Ingar Haaland: With math essentially being delegated to OpenAI, here’s what I predict for economics and the social sciences more generally: The top ...
Can't Get Much Higher

It’s Not about You - How autobiography took over the world
Stewart Margolis

Who Are You Voting For? - I was recently asked for whom I would vote in the 2028 presidential election.
SkyscraperCity Forum

Tiquipaya | Guía de Proyectos, Construcciones y Fotografías - *Agencia Estatal de Vivienda beneficia a 72 familias en Tiquipaya Cochabamba* [image: Image] Agencia Estatal de Vivienda beneficia a 72 familias en Tiqu...
Institute for Energy Research

Trump Signs Order to Expand Access to Tax-Exempt Diesel - President Trump waived the off-road requirement for red-dye diesel, making it available temporarily tax-free to lower diesel prices. The new… The post Tr...
Israel Institute of NZ

They Tried To Kill Us – Five Ways The Jews Have Survived, And Which Are Still Open To Us - Every year at Purim we read the Book of Esther aloud, and every year we boo Haman until our throats are raw. It can be read as a children’s story with a ha...
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Who Makes the Judges? (And why the process is not what Parliament laid out) - LawNews
The Double Standard

Open Mike 09/10/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
American Energy Alliance

Trump’s Greenland Deal Improves America’s Critical Mineral Outlook - Days after President Trump announced a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Mines applied to double the size of its rare earth mine i...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Interview with Ben Bayer on Texas Talks Podcast - An expert on Ayn Rand discusses her unique approach to philosophy
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Francesca Albanese: Every Tyrant's Best Friend -
Public: Michael Shellenberger

Europe, Seeking To Censor Americans, Has Labeled The US A “Foreign Information” Threat - European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s diplomatic service, has removed its name from a pro-censorship conference website, but did not pull finan...
Armageddon Newsletter

Travel Notes, St Petersburg: installment seven - Where wealthy Petersburgers shop for clothes
IPWatchdog Articles

Postcards from WIPO: What’s Ahead for IP in Geneva This Fall - I am pleased to introduce “Postcard from WIPO,” a new occasional series for the U.S. intellectual property community. Having spent much of my career work...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

A Sentiment Analysis of Cowen, Hanson, Caplan, and Krugman - A conversation with ChatGPT inspired by Fabio Rojas
Energy in Depth

Dallas Fed: The Oil Patch Is Growing, and Permitting Reform Decides How Fast Relief Arrives - America’s oil and natural gas producers kept growing through the third quarter. According to the Sept 30 Dallas Fed Energy Survey, producers increased ba...
Jensen's Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter

Physical Oil Price Breakaway From Digital Oil Is Instructive For Gold & Silver - Only Physical Matters
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Costa Blame Financial Woes On Climate Change! - By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness More piss poor reporting from the increasingly unreliable Daily Telegraph. A new article headlined “Costa warns over ris...
Reason Foundation

Huge expansion plan for Virginia I-95 express toll lanes - Plus: Brightline Florida bankruptcy filing, Mobile River Bridge under way in Alabama, and more. The post Huge expansion plan for Virginia I-95 express to...
ROBERT FRIPP

A different stream of actualisation begins… - Words 146 · RF@80 Series
ArchDaily

ZAYMA Residential Development / 0studio Arquitectura - Initiated in 2022, Zayma is a residential development comprising eleven units organized into three volumes articulated around a central courtyard. Concei...
Market Urbanism

Link: Atlas of Data Center Politics - Thanks to Infrastructure Lab at the National University of Singapore, there’s now a global atlas of every (??) data center built or proposed, as well as a ...
Why Evolution Is True

Mamdani booed for his October 7 statement—by supporters of Palestine - UPDATE: In what can only be a gesture of anti-Israel defiance, Mamdani ate dinner on October 7 at an ideologically-themed Palestinian restaurant (h/t Wayn...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Is Striving Cringe? - The people who are supposedly “above” status games are often the most shameless players.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

You're Fine - Hello again and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. This week is also the week of the 2026 Mark Steyn Cruise, so while Mark and his illustriou...
John D. Cook

Privacy policies and modal logic - If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you may know that I do a lot of work with data privacy and that I have an interest in modal logic. Recently the...
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Who Knew Boston Was Rural? - Good intentions can have a long shelf life in Medicare, long enough to become something else entirely. The post Who Knew Boston Was Rural? appeared firs...
Breaking Views

Richard Prebble: Does winning the leaders’ debate matter? - I remember New Zealand’s first televised leaders’ debate in 1969. To the commentators’ surprise, Norman Kirk was judged to have got the better of Prime Min...
On Substack

A new vision for sponsorships - On clubbing, Boston Market, and more ways to earn on Substack
The Daily Economy

NY Fed: Inflation on Many Everyday Items Was Entirely Due to Tariffs -
The Rebuild

BAAJA Shows the Need for a Case-by-Case Approach to Environmental Activists - Cheaper Energy and Protecting Nature Are Not Opposites
bad cattitude

should i stay (home) or should i go (to the polls) - first and second order thoughts on fiscal policy and elections
Perennial Meditations

Remember Death. Return to Life. - Dying Every Day (Classic)
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Call Us Daddies #27: What Are Fathers Telling Their Sons About Cornell? - The dad crew gets spicy about fraternities, hoaxes, and adults cutting off their parents due to therapy (60 min)
Uncharted Territories

Why Did Japan Rise So Much, but Then Stagnated? - The same reasons that made it grow fast then caused it to stagnate
Brownstone Institute

Vaccine Injury: A Glimpse of the Scale - Vaccine Injury: A Glimpse of the Scale by Elizabeth Mumper at Brownstone Institute [image: Vaccine Injury: A Glimpse of the Scale] [Delivered at National...
ChinaTalk

The Spice Trader vs. the Tariffs - a section 301 update from the litigant
Curbed - All

“Once I Got Into 150 Charles, I Wasn’t Leaving” - The luxury condo owners say their tenants are squatters. The tenants say they moved into a mess — but won’t leave.
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Taking us by surprise - Very few people foresaw the use Viagra would be put to. Few saw semaglutide coming. Very few anticipated large language models and AI coming along so fas...
Energy Transition Absurdities

Energy Additions Podcast: Election Preview With Larry Schweikart - Larry Schweikart is well known as a historian and author.
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #71 - *⚗️ Mann Virdee, Head of Science and Technology* In 1662, the newly chartered Royal Society of London appointed the natural philosopher Robert Hooke its ...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1248 Stocks of oil plunge. Junk bonds + AI VC under pressure & how Roman Law was made. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

“We are HUNTING Pielke” - A look back at how climate enthusiasts tried to sabotage the careers of inconvenient scientists
Law & Liberty

Douglass’s Two Constitutions - When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation.
Living Resources Center

One of America’s Two Parties is Now Totalitarian - The Iranians shout “Death to America.” The Democratic Party will bring death to America. They are the same. Obliterating individual rights in favor of co...
Quotulatiousness

Singapore’s journey from British colony to independent economic star - At The Wrong Side of History, Ed West reviews the autobiography of Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of an independent Singapore and the man most resp...
DGMLive

In Search Of Angus - The retired industrialist whose loan helped to launch King Crimson and the wife who was instrumental in making it happen. We shine some light on the story ...
Zero Hanger

Gold Coast’s AFL trade raid far from over with another Hawk to meet with Suns coach - Layers continue to be added to the dealings between the two clubs.
An Africanist Perspective

Two recent podcast appearances - On growth, development policy research, urbanization, and more
Samizdata

The Rishi Sunak Question is the wrong question - About a year ago Konstantin Kisin of Triggernometry stirred up controversy by suggesting that Rishi Sunak, former British Prime Minister, was “not Englis...
The Whakataki Times

Family Drives 300km To Get Away From Everything Before Complaining There’s Nothing To Do - RURAL REGRET. The post Family Drives 300km To Get Away From Everything Before Complaining There’s Nothing To Do appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
The Cobden Centre

Richard Cobden Speech on Free Trade - LONDON, JULY 3, 1844. After the narrative which our friend Mr. Villiers has given of the past proceedings of himself and others in the...
Mises Wire

Austrians See No Common Sense in the Common Good - Vice-President JD Vance has been touting “common-good conservatism.” It is clear that the man has no understanding of economics and the real world.
Mises Institute Blog

Austrians See No Common Sense in the Common Good - Vice-President JD Vance has been touting “common-good conservatism.” It is clear that the man has no understanding of economics and the real world.
Hoover institution Commentary

Fueling America's Allies - The United States must turn its lead in oil, gas, nuclear, and clean firm energy into strategic advantages that advance national interests, generate prospe...
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Afghanistan, Again? Unlearned Lessons of America’s Longest War - Over $2.2 trillion was spent, with over 2,400 dead US service members, and the Taliban retained power in Afghanistan. That is the legacy of the US’s long...
Te Papa

Green Party promises to nationalise the Kiwibank sheep - In perhaps its boldest policy proclamation of the campaign, the Green Party has pledged to nationalise Buck, the Kiwibank sheep, effectively putting it in ...
THE CIVILIAN

Green Party promises to nationalise the Kiwibank sheep - In perhaps its boldest policy proclamation of the campaign, the Green Party has pledged to nationalise Buck, the Kiwibank sheep, effectively putting it in ...
Notes On Liberty

The Climate Bomb, Part 2: Collapsing Towers of Ice and Stone Echo 9/11 - As we reflect on the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I find the comparison between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and the three geolo...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: We Scarcely Ever Think of the Present - The only time that belongs to us.
Point of Order

When names are gifted by Maori, they stick – even if a majority of submissions are opposed - Bob Edlin writes – Call a kaumatua and ask for a new name to be “gifted”. That’s our advice to Green MP Julie Anne Genter, who is miffed about the name th...
The Trumpland Diary

An Epstein Whistleblower Just Unalived Himself (Allegedly) - Simon Andriesz was a British banker who worked on Wall Street for years as Managing Director at the BGC Partners firm under CEO Howard Lutnick.
Manhattan Contrarian

How Can Democrats Possibly Run On "Affordability"? - * We are now less than a month out from the mid-term elections, and the single biggest theme that the Democrats have chosen to run on appears to be “afford...
The Daily Doom

The Big Bond Bust Keeps Expanding - A growing, shadowy mass is spreading around the world of finance like a fungal infection. France is highlighted in the articles below as being the worst ...
Theatreview

Comment of Class of ’86 review - John Smythe October 8th, 2026 Re your issue with the “odd choice in the final scene where the jock gives the queer theatre kid a big kiss on the lips.” I...
Quillette

Jerry Kaplan on AI Doomers - AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real risks ...
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Scotomization – the mental process of unconsciously blocking out, ignoring, or deleting distressing perceptions, memories, or realities that conflict with ...
Kiwiblog

Accountability is good - The Herald reports: Tauranga City Council chief executive Marty Grenfell has resigned after councillors held an emergency closed-door meeting this aftern...
Real Clear Energy

Why China Cares About Data Centers in Arkansas - Greg Kiley, RCEnergy Today, China is trying to slow the pace of data center development across the country, including in states across the nation like Geor...
Quote Investigator

Quote Origin: There Will Never Be a Robot, a Tireless Mechanism Performing All the Functions of a Man - Waldemar Kaempffert? G. K. Chesterton? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The ongoing progress in robotics reminds me of skeptical remarks such a...
Glenn’s Substack

Marco Goes Hard - About what really matters
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Nope! The Trumpian Economy Is Not Remotely Booming And Falling Crime Rates Aren’t The Donald’s Doing, Either - Click on Title to Read
The New York Review of Books

Edwin Frank on Love and Death in the American Novel - Season 2, Episode 3 of Private Life
Keiran Murphy (FLW Historian)

The logo of the Taliesin Fellowship, and the Whirling Arrow - Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Whirling Arrow is in gold fabric draped over the stone railing in the Hillside Theater(opens in new tab).1 Today I’m writing a...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

THE MARY WALLOPERS Announce Their Biggest Tour of AU/NZ yet! PADDYWHACKERY LIVE – May 2027 - Ireland’s celebrated punk rebel rousers return to Australia + make their New Zealand debut! Fresh from the release of their blistering new album Paddywha...
UnHerd

Why Britain is the world’s C-section capital - Childbirth will always be dangerous
The Claude Megson blog

Megson's middle Mrkusich townhouse on the market - The middle unit of what were known as the Mrkusich towhnhouses is for sale, and we have another chance to explore its interior. Just 68square metres -...
Slow Boring

A blue wave is building as the G.O.P.’s numbers sink - With the war in Iran unpopular and prices rising, every Republican Senate candidate the Times polled is underwater. A Democratic majority is within reach b...
Astral Codex Ten

Top Forecasters On The Plague - ...
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

‘I’m Raining Too’ - This original song about grief came to me late last night, and I’d like to share it with you
The Footy Almanac

2026 Rugby League World Cup: Get set for another month of footy! - Just when you thought the rugby league season was over, along comes the 2026 Rugby League World Cup. To find out all the program details read on.
Autonomia

Movies: “The Social Reckoning” - Aaron Sorkin’s movie about Facebook wrestles and pins the point of being social
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on What Could Shock the Markets Before Election Day - Rising geopolitical tensions, energy stress, high interest rates, political uncertainty, and stretched stock valuations are creating the conditions for a...
Retraction Watch

Wildlife journal issues corrections for missing ethics statements - In what one sleuth called a “systemic failure,” a wildlife journal has issued corrections to a handful of papers not for an error in the articles but to in...
The Curmudgeon

Enigmatic Escalation - Satellite imagery appears to show that the Heathen Chinee are conducting cunning operations in South-east Asia. Reputedly used by the World Cop during its ...
Sustain What

On October 7 and Every Day, It’s Hard, but Vital, to Shift the Focus from Conflict to Cooperation - A unlikely friendship and hopeful book lay out paths toward peace amid violence and hate.
HardmoneyJim

The President Just Said It Out Loud: Inflation Is the Plan - FINANCIAL REPRESSION IS NO LONGER A FORECAST. IT’S OFFICIAL POLICY, ANNOUNCED IN A MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Water Leasing Can Rescue Montana’s Coldwater Fisheries - SB178 allows water rights holders to lease their rights temporarily to new beneficial uses, including instream flows. The post Water Leasing Can Rescue M...
Marcus on AI

Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop - The real news here isn’t the result; it’s what we were not told.
Official Blog

Gevangen ( IN ) 2019 – Geocache of the week - Traditional GC7ZNA1 by jackie vandenberk Difficulty: 2 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Limburg, Belgium N 51° 15.275′ E 005° 18.564′ Someone needs your help, and th...
Persuasion

In Brazil, Absolutely Nothing Changes - Corruption. Anger. A man called Lula and a man called Bolsonaro.
Public Lands – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Wildlife – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Private Lands – PERC

PERC Reports Magazine Survey - We'd love your feedback! The post PERC Reports Magazine Survey appeared first on PERC.
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
Knowledge Problem

Bargaining with the Data Center - Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean Bargaining Agreements
The Contrarian Capitalist

Mid-Week Macro 07/10/2026 - Brazil, Bullion, Bonds & BS - We look through GDX, SIL, Bullion, Market Directions and much more.
The Common Reader

James Marriott and the Death of Civilization - The New Dark Ages PLUS Shakespeare
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

They Hid This From You! - The ‘Hidden Knowledge’ Pitch Given On Podcasts
The Breakthrough Journal

The Limits of Climate Attribution Science - Attribution Science Can’t Tell Courts the Cost of Climate Change
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Montreal: Stoicism talk at Indigo Pointe-Claire this Sunday - A live talk and Q&A on How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The New Atlantis

Are We Really on the Path to AGI? - Sometimes, a curious amateur’s eye can discern tensions in the work of professionals that the intensity of their focused labor keeps them from seeing cle...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Eva Marie Saint: 1924-2026 - Iconic Star of Stage and Screen was 102
CO2 Coalition

Climate Lawfare Cannot Rewrite Energy History - By Vijay Jayaraj Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel took aim at BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute, hauling them into...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Firewall down in Sachsen-Anhalt: Landtag elects an AfD President with CDU votes - Firewall on life support, leftoids big mad.
Gus Van Horn

An Upcoming Challenge for Secularists on Ethics - *[T]hey've never faced the fact that while they've rejected so many other doctrines of their childhood preachers, altruism is the one they've never been wi...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Are Immigration Restrictionists Bad People? - Preferences aren’t the issue, but what people want to do about them
Dead Language Society

How to teach yourself linguistics - The complete DIY reading list + curriculum
Middle East Uncovered

There Was Nothing Victorious About October 7 - Three years later, parts of the Western left still romanticize the Hamas attack as Palestinian “resistance.” The people who experienced that day and the wa...
FIRE

Venezuela is a cautionary tale w/ Jim Epstein and Germania Rodriguez Poleo - For more than half a century, Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, broadcast news, sports, comedies, and telenovelas in Venezuela...
Conspicuous Cognition

Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness - Why Pinker thinks intelligence isn’t a superpower, the doom scenarios don’t hold up, and AI systems (probably) aren’t conscious – and what he got wrong abo...
Yascha Mounk

Third Parties Are On the Rise. America Could Be Next. - Yet even those of us who feel politically homeless shouldn’t necessarily welcome them.
The Roots of Liberty

Echo Chamber Consensus - A few years back, a member of a right-leaning Facebook group I belong to blocked me.
Paul Wells

Wayne Eyre on warcraft in a time of crisis - The former top general’s memoir dishes on Trudeau, sure, but that’s not all
EconLog

Debt and Profit - An ordinary person can earn a paycheque, pay her taxes, cover living costs and mortgage payments, and perhaps even add to her savings — and at the end of...
MacleodFinance Substack

Prices and poppycock - Long-run prices valued in gold are remarkably stable. It is in currencies that they rise. The extent of the rise reflects debasement, much of which is hidd...
Schiffradio.com

Tariffs Failed. Imports Hit a Record. France Is Rioting. We’re Next. - Tariffs failed, imports hit a record, and France is rioting. Peter Schiff explains why America's sovereign debt crisis is next. The post Tariffs Failed. ...
Doomberg

Ties That Bind - Carney stitches together Canadian unity using the thread of energy.
American Institute of Economic Research

The Digital Dollar Standard - This paper demonstrates that stablecoins make transferring money dramatically cheaper and faster by bypassing traditional banks, which spreads US dollar us...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Issue 26: China’s growth machines - Featuring Dan Wang, Stephen Kotkin, Saloni Dattani, and more.
Existential Crunch

October 2026 Updates - What’s new in societal collapse research?
Flashbak

Cross-Dressing Nazis - “If the photos did not exist, you would not believe it” – Martin Dammann, cross-dressing Nazis The Nazis made a virtue of murdering people they were ...
Brash & Mitchell

RICHARD PREBBLE: Does winning the leaders’ debate matter? - I remember New Zealand’s first televised leaders’ debate in 1969. To the commentators’ surprise, Norman Kirk was judged to have got the better of Prime Min...
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Why China Cares About Data Centers in Arkansas - Today, China is trying to slow the pace of data center development across the country, including in states across the nation like Georgia, Virginia and Ark...
Liberty Scott

Remembering 7th October - It felt like the end of a rather golden period. A period when mainstream discourse across the Western world was to treat Jew hatred as the morally debase...
RenewNZ

NZ leaders lack moral clarity on Israel - Today commemorates three years since the homicidal psychopaths in Hamas invaded Israel and delighted in killing men, women and children. They laughed as th...
Dramatic Pause

By the Numbers: - *Jesse Woolston is an artist whose practice spans bespoke computational physics, sculpture, painting, and large-scale public installation. Working across...
The Logical Place

Immigration and Aged Care - One of the central weaknesses in broad immigration-cutting proposals is that aged care is already unusually dependent on migrant labour, and domestic recru...
No Right Turn

Election-rigging violates the BORA - Last year the regime attempted to rig the election, overturning 77 years of settled law to cut off enrolment two weeks before the vote, in a desperate effo...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

COVID revisionism: ‘Guided by the science and data’ has clearly morphed into ‘insane’ - A half-hearted mention of ‘hindsight’ doesn’t cut it
JunkScience.com

Milloy talks SCOTUS climate case on FOX Business - From the October 5, 2026 edition of The Bottom Line.
New Zealand Arts Review

Peter Boggs: Transfigured Realities - John Daly-Peoples Peter Boggs Peter Boggs who was born in New Zealand is one of the leading contemporary painters in Australia, with a career spanning over...
Skeptic

Islam and Pseudoscience: Close Encounters in the Classroom (and How to Deal with Them) - A philosophy professor at a Moroccan university spends a decade inside classrooms where students invoke Hume, Popper, and Qur’anic verses to defend creatio...
Free Range Kids

A Free-Range, Empowering Way to Get Kids to LISTEN in Class? Yep! - Hi Folks! I love this lesson, brought to us a while back by teacher Jennifer Tobin of Whitby, Ontario. I welcome any more tales from teachers or princi...
McFaul's World

Register for my Q+A this Friday! - “Ask Me Anything” live on Zoom from 10am PT / 1pm ET on 9 October
The Many Ways I Let You Down

Why I would wipe my ass on a Palestinian flag - Parading the safest political causes as acts of rebellion is killing rock ’n’ roll.
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

On Conviction - The point of believing anything is to become a psychopathic fanatic for it.
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Catching up on a hectic year… so far… - I started 2026 with the intention of writing a blog post a month, or thereabouts. Then things happened. Things? Basically the workload of a full-time write...
A Halfling's View

The Tyranny of the Nice Story - In praise of guides who can prove what they say — and against the fashion that pretends it doesn't matter
The UnPopulist

Donald J. Trump: The DSA President - And Republicans are there for him as he takes over the means of production
Lindsay Mitchell

Welfare missing from 2026 election - Welfare is markedly missing from 2026 election campaign issues. There's been far more debate about Super: its cost, means-testing and the age of eligibili...
First Stones NewsLetter

Gary’s Cosmology: Existence is a cube. - *Gary’s Cosmology* *An Exploration of Existence, Time, the Big Bang, and Our Universe* *Article #2 — Existence is a Cube*(PLUS: One thing I discovered firs...
Peter Boghossian

We Are All Eugenicists Now - Women’s rights, Embryo Screening, and Fascism
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 94) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

The Integrated Timeline: World in 1900, part 1 - Major powers in Europe ca. 1900. This PDF is free.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Credit Crunch - If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links:* $70 a year*,* $18 a quarter*, or* ...
Sinification

Chinese Perspectives on the EU–China Trade Conflict - A preview of our paper with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

Hochul’s Energy Infrastructure Development Plan: Rhetoric, Not a Plan - My most recent post argued that it is time for New York to decide what the future energy system should look like. On September 22, 2026, Governor Hochul ...
Sawahil

Israel’s Elections: A Look Three Weeks Out - Netanyahu’s fate, Israel’s trajectory, and ramifications for the whole world.
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: September 2026 - Last month, the NSF opened an Office of Metascience, the Senate Bipartisan Science and Innovation Caucus launched, and Clinical Trial Abundance was on the ...
Stats Chat

NFL Predictions for Week 5 - Team Ratings for Week 5 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ra...
Anthony B. Bradley

What the Cornell Allegations Reveal About How America Raises Sons - A great résumé is not a good soul
Anthony B. Bradley

What the Cornell Allegations Reveal About How America Raises Sons - A great résumé is not a good soul
Changing Lanes

Who Drives Ridehail? - Good robotaxi policy depends on the answer
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

Stoic Joy: Six Habits For A Calmer Life - You can get better at handling difficulty and still forget to enjoy your life.
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Why Everybody Loves Glen Campbell - In 1960, a country boy named Glen Campbell showed up in Los Angeles with a guitar, a pompadour hairdo, and a lean, hungry look....
Chris Trotter

Interviewing Chloe. - The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Eudemian Ethics I.8 - Against the Platonists
Andrew Whiteside

Interview: Viliamu Yandall and Black Grace - This October, BLACK GRACE returns with their fourth season of Company B titled “The Eggyssey”. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Led by Founding Ar...
Capitalism Magazine

Statism On the Rise as Capitalism and Freedom are in Decline - As Ayn Rand observed, “In order to justify it, the statists have to rouse people to a hysterical fear of some malevolent enemy who threatens them with cons...
Dr Oliver Hartwich

Should the government spend less? A debate between a neoliberal and a progressive - Max Rashbrooke and Oliver Hartwich debate whether the New Zealand government should increase or decrease spending, discussing economic principles, taxation...
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Anything Except That - Why voters may be losing attachment to individual parties while remaining firmly opposed to others, and what negative partisanship means in New Zealand’s M...
The Trichordist

@ArtistRights Symposium 5 Panel: In Our Own Backyard: Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, and the Creative Communities That Pay the Price - When AI comes for your dreams: Artist Rights Symposium V connects the fight over data centers, eminent domain and community resources with artists’ fight t...
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

Introducing the Tech & Society Lab at NYU Stern - Building a research program that keeps pace with technology as it changes childhood and society
Kunstler

Pornish Hen - “[NY Attorney General Letitia] James has always followed the policy of the Queen of Hearts in ‘Alice in Wonderland’: Sentence first, verdict afterward.”
Journal of Free Black Thought

Held at Gunpoint - A black former cop reflects on his own encounters with police
Journal of Free Black Thought

Held at Gunpoint - A black former cop reflects on his own encounters with police
Tim’s Substack

Shots Fired! - The Army deploys infantry into the Rio Grande Valley.
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Irreligious Acts - Are religious exemptions to vaccination religious?
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Immigrants Are Not Coming to Murder You - Part 2 of What People Really Care About When They’re Mad About Immigration
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Immigrants Are Not Coming to Murder You - Part 2 of What People Really Care About When They’re Mad About Immigration
GeekPress

Siri AI Privacy Tips - *"How to Limit* What Apple's New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27"
Real Clear Energy: Video

Bank of England: AI Boom Could Trigger Market Shocks - Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.
Cremieux Recueil

Still Discriminating - Three years after SFFA v. Harvard banned racially discriminatory admissions, universities haven’t stopped
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Another, very significant, example of why Māori privilege is a myth - My ears pricked up a week back when ZB reported on recently released 2025/2026 suicide stats.
The Tracinski Letter

The Freak Show - What I Learned Running for Office, Part 4
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Who Climbed the Income Ladder in 2026? Vietnam vs. the Philippines - Plus Togo's census shortcut, China's near miss, and why the World Bank held back Türkiye and Argentina.
Offsetting Behaviour

Sheep, speech, and the DMCA - Preston Byrne has been doing superb work trying to help protect US-based tech platforms from foreign regulators that want to kill off freedom of speech. ...
Let Grow

Books to Get Young Kids Outside - [image: Blog Books Kids Outside] This little list comes to us from research scientist-turned-award-winning children’s author Heather C. Morris. Her picture...
Barrie Saunders

Supermarkets – what about the provinces? - Anyone who drives to Gisborne, as I have done from the north and south, will discover the roads are winding and often tedious. This means getting in produc...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

Truth isn’t the answer to ‘fake news’ - Institute of Arts and Ideas
Croaking Cassandra

What I’d do - A couple of weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times published a piece by me (that they’d requested) trying to explain productivity and why it mattered. The mandate...
The New Era

Russia and Mogg - Jacob Rees-Mogg was forced to unravel his investment positions in Russia. Now he wants to go to war with them - with others fighting that war for him.
AAS Economics (Frank Shostak)

THE NEXT DOWNTURN - Money Supply & Macro #77 - It’s inevitable
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #66: “What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Communicate” - Understanding a message is not the same as accepting it
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Why Gerry Rafferty’s Lyrics in ‘Baker Street’ Are Worth Paying Attention to - The point of the song gets at what I believe is an important truth: our lives often turn into sad patterns that are difficult to escape.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

The Immoral "Effective Altruism" Power Grab: How Utilitarianism Is Driving AI Regulation - By firmly championing individual rights, free competition, and objective law, we can harness the immense promise of artificial intelligence without sacrifi...
O'Shannassy's Dispatches from Collapse

I Don’t Think, Therefore I Am Not - ‘Trump’s Tariffs’ Issue Has More Dimensions To It Than You Can Possibly Imagine. If You Exist That Is.
Freedom and Flourishing

Behavioral Economics and Human Flourishing: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective - *This is a guest essay by Dr Edward W. Younkins, Professor of Accountancy and Business at Wheeling University, and Executive Director of its Institute f...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Explaining Postmodernism — first edition text free online - My 10-year publishing agreement with Ockham’s Razor Publishing has ended. ORM published the expanded edition from 2010-2015 and then from 2015 to 2025. Pri...
Construction Physics

Reading List 2026-10-03 - A Senate permitting reform bill, the potential of Tesla’s Cybercab, the Navy’s $200 billion worth of shipyard renovations, returning a SR-71 to service, an...
The Beauty of Things

Youthful Follies with Staying Power - A poem because 32 years is a long time. Also, happy (belated) 70th birthday, A.M. Juster, translator of Petrarch’s Canzoniere. PLUS: events, contests, and ...
The Kerrant

Living Better Than Kings - For most of human history, many of life’s greatest conveniences were available only to kings, aristocrats and the extraordinarily wealthy. They had chauf...
The War on Prices

Wall Street Journal Polling Highlights How Inflation Encourages Bad Policy - The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Americans are transcending traditional political labels in favor of populism. The newspaper’s polli...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

A week is a long time: 3 October 2026 - A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up
Leport’s Substack

SALE SALE SALE - DEFROSTED Kindle version is only $1.99
Gale Winds

What is the True Price of Traveling a Mile? - It's time per mile that counts.
Principled Perspectives

Socialism vs. Welfare Statism: Why These Terms Matter - I originally posted a version of this essay about 8 years ago. But after reposting my updated version of Criminal Socialism vs. a Free Society, and given...
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down fro...
Libertarian Land

How the Endangered Species Act Inhibits Housing Development - The Trump Administration recently weakened the Endangered Species Act.
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
Mike’s Substack

Where an Identity Comes From - A child abstracts himself from what he did, twice: once to learn that he is, once to learn who.
A Havenstein Moment.

Burning Down the House - It has no meaning
History Reclaimed

Misogyny and Inaccuracy in the new Register of British Slave Traders - The new Register of British Slave Traders claims to include 13,000 people but only gives details on just over 6000 of them. It lumps together slave traders...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

America’s diesel problem—and how to fix it - A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and wreck America’s energy superpower status.
Houston Strategies

Metro's 1978 plan: promises made, promises kept, promises broken - Another excellent guest post from Oscar Slotboom with some of Houston METRO's lost history from the archives of Barry Klein, RIP.--- Civic activist Barry K...
The Future of Being Human

14 essential AI "I Can ..." skills every undergrad should have (Updated) - Employers are increasingly looking for students who show good judgment with AI, can demonstrate their AI skills in an interview, and are adept at directing...
The Grumpy Economist

An Inflation-Protected Balance Sheet - A Substack lets me share fun new ideas.
The Intrinsic Perspective

How do I tell my kids about AI? - Or, Why education should recapitulate civilization
One Useful Thing

The Dot and the Swarm - Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
Gross Output

Business is Back – Big Time! - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
Fictionosophy

The Iron Heel on Oligarchy and History - The Iron Heel is essentially a collection of mostly incorrect ideas about history and economics framed in a basic, ineffective story.
Asymmetric Information

The AI files: Making sense of artificial intelligence🍋 - We don't know how AI will turn out. But that doesn't mean we know nothing
Toppermost

Franz Ferdinand - Their rise was stratospheric. The song that provided the rocket fuel was Take Me Out. The post Franz Ferdinand appeared first on Toppermost.
Tross Publishing

Should Our Country be Named Aotearoa - By Kerry Butler There has been a movement in recent times to push a name change for our country to “Aotearoa” by way of creeping normalcy. This subversiv...
Africa-Israel Weekly

Dumisani on CBN’s 700 Club - Unfinished Business Holy Land Pilgrimage - Pastor Dumisani Washington appears on the 700 Club to discuss the “Unfinished Business” Holy Land pilgrimage, reviving Dr.
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Trump Deserves to Be Impeached - The Constitution is the law that the people of the United States have imposed on federal officials. That’s what makes it the highest law of the land. U.S...
Statecraft

How to Build a Policy School - “We’re not reading the IKEA instructions.”
Interintellect

November 10: NYC | A Free “Mini Festival” to Discuss GenZ’s economics and culture - Is GenZ the generation that lost the future, or the one nobody’s bothered to understand?
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 529 - Underlaying modernism - Architectural modernity’s idioms sustained by industrialization envisioned a new formal language seemingly detached from any classical references. One c...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Did Fauci’s NIAID Work with Spy Agencies to Aerosolize Ebola?! - Rand Paul released Fauci's diary on the 2015 live-Ebola aerosol experiment.
Risk & Progress

(Almost) Everything is Getting Better - 22 charts illustrating our ascent to abundance
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I - The story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it
Austin Vernon's Substack

An Ode to Tesla's Cybercab - The bet to deliver autonomous vehicles to the masses.
What You Can Do For Liberty

Ignore the Doomers: We’re Going To Win - Social media is being flooded right now with messages that say Republicans can’t possibly win the 2026 midterms. Ignore it.
Thinking Directions

Money, Safety, and Ease — Oh My! - As many of you know, I have reconceptualized Marshall Rosenberg’s idea of “universal needs” as “deep rational values.” If you are unfamiliar with either ...
The Realization of Wholeness

“A Day in the Life” - The GOAT song
Reason for Living

Conquering with Curiosity - When I was young, there were certain subjects I thought I would never like or find interesting—until I changed my mindset.
The Shrewd Artist

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Just Signed, The 19th in the Space Series - Space Series Self-Portrait, The Painter.
Michael Newberry, Artist

Art History as a Sandbox - Only a Handful of Monumental Art Cycles For a few years in the early 1980s, I lived in Staten Island, walking distance from the Staten Island Ferry. Whenev...
The Weekly Sift

Machiavellian Assessments - No Sift for the next five weeks. The next new articles will appear on November 2. Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machia...
The Economic LongWave

🏠⚠️ The Two Cycles Everyone Keeps Confusing — And Why It Matters Now - The Kuznets Cycle and the 18.6-Year Real Estate Cycle are different. One tracks the broader development wave; the other tracks land, credit and speculation.
Eating Policy

How to Peel a Banana - Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon
The Organon Architecture Blog

Mid-Century features worth thinking about - Organic architecture has been called "the other modernism." Modernist architecture is not organic architecture, but organic architecture has more in comm...
A life just as ordinary

Beer – #1123 – Kererú – Paloma 2018 - Where I drink a 2018 bottle of beer that's been in the cool cupboard (you might say cellar) since I brought it. … Continue reading →
The Library of Celaeno

The Man in The Megadeth Shirt - A Dad’s Job
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Cameron Hawley: Libertarian Film Hero - Cameron Hawley — born September 19, 1905 — was an American fiction writer. Two films based on his books are unusual for their Randian tone and strongly pro...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Cognitive Autonomy Is a Collective Job - Reflections on Ruxandra.
The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Math Benchmark - And Other Reasons Americans Hate Data Centers
Ruxandra’s Substack

Education as an AI safety area - If we count on human judgement to guide AI, we need to maintain institutions that cultivate it.
Maximum Progress

The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics - Evan Behrle on Desert and Economic Interdependence
The Truth Fairy

** THE PLOT AGAINST LOVE ** (NEW BOOK) - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!
Conflicted

Why did Mark Carney establish the TCFD? - New Series: Did China Capture California? Post #1
Virginia Postrel

Upcoming Events and Recommended Reading - Come see me in LA next week or NYC next month!
Wright in Racine

Eighty Five Years of Hardy House Friendship - © Mark Hertzberg (2026) I have posted many stories about Anne Sporer Ruetz and her passion for the house she grew up in between 1938 – 1947, Frank Lloyd Wr...
Science+Story

‘Public Expert’ is a Human Role, Regardless of How Much AI You Use - On writing with AI as an author and other current scandals.
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

How to Create Your Own Unique Aesthetic - Style is selection repeated until it becomes its own reality.
What's New Under the Sun

The non-material consequences of growth - When growth slows, people rate their system of government more poorly and become a bit more zero sum
Kiwipolitico

Cartoon Villains. - The 25th anniversary of September 11 got me to thinking. Marx wrote that history tended to repeat itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. It seems that...
Regan's Substack

Pregnancy Purity - Mom guilt begins at conception
HBL

Transgenderism - TG wrote (in a much longer post) on my Forum: Yes, and these feelings are bodily sensations, such as what you feel in your arm when you raise it, what you ...
Butterpaper

Vault 2001: Fall of the twin towers - A quarter century has passed since the towers fell. Too busy working on this site to be watching the late night news, I had no idea until I cycled to wor...
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (September 2026) - Food security at the Security Council, and global tipping point risk
Cranmer’s Substack

THE AI FACTORY THAT NEEDS MORE POWER THAN NEW ZEALAND - From enriched uranium to artificial intelligence, one Ohio site captures the scale of the next industrial revolution.
PM of NZ

Glide Time bludgers have an outing in the sun - A few under-worked unionised in Wellingrad had an outing in the sun today. Good to see them getting some vitamin D. As is the norm, screaming into the ...
Harry’s Substack

Settling the Is-Ought Issue, using AI - A dialogue with Gemini on Hume, Ayn Rand, and Deductivism
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Now live: “Revolution Lived vs. Revolution Chanted” - A must-watch short film about the bait-and-switch tactics extremists use to hijack nice-sounding political movements.
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Economics Teaching Conference - If you might be interested in attending, click here for more information.
Eat More Electrons

Death to the boring think tank event - YAMA: You aren’t missing anything
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
The Antiplanner

Transit Carried only 83% of 2019 Riders in July 2026 - Transit carried just 83.3 percent as many riders in July of 2026 as in the same month of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Federal Transit Adm...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' [sic] - A piece from a Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown is doing the rounds again. It's called 'The Myth of the Cession of Māori Sovereignty' -- and argues (unsurpris...
Outliving Iran

Outliving Iran: A Memoir (Part 3) - A fork in the road
Schreibmaschiner (David McLoughlin)

Peter Bromhead on how to ruin a stroganoff dinner party - Peter Bromhead, who has died aged 93, was as great a teller of hilarious tales as he was a creator of incisive cartoons. This is a story he liked to tell o...
Richard Werner’s Substack

Financial Controls to Tighten as our “Leader”-Puppets Steer towards World War Three - The first steps towards capital controls indicate that the EU is serious about wartime mobilisation and the digital Gulag.
The Roots of Progress

We’re hiring: Event Manager & Education Program Operations Manager - Help us inspire young people to build an ambitious future, or create events that bring together the progress community
Johnny Grey Studios

Late Summer Newsletter 2026 - FT Weekend festival 5 September 2026 Dear friends If you’re in or near London this weekend how about visiting the UK’s cleverest festival, in Hampstead (of...
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
The Jolly Libertarian

This is Not Real Life - Truth, the old saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Which may be why I like biographies. They're the stories of real people. They tell us about real he...
Equal to Reality

Their Phantom Liberty - If a King cannot leave, he is never free, however gilded the cage that holds him is.
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

Evict Your Enemies - In which Robert shares thoughts and strategies on how to clear the road ahead ... personally and politically. Ten Steps for getting your adversaries the He...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Mumbo-jumbo and all that - The Mullahs of Mumbo-jumbo advance the cause of racist superiority
Muss Montessori School

Can Montessori Education Reduce Mobile Addiction in Kids? - Yes, Montessori education can help reduce mobile addiction in kids by giving them hands-on activities, independence, movement, creativity, and meaningful...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains. - Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends mo...
Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

Why left-progressives adopt appalling people as moral mascots - They make for stronger signals of shared moral heroism
Happy Future

The New Artillery Shell Factory is a Dud - “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.”
Asimov’s Addendum

When Smaller Models Win - Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI
Tribes – PERC

Reclaiming Bison on Fort Peck - The reservation in northeastern Montana built one of the largest tribal bison herds in the country—and demonstrated what tribal stewardship can achieve ...
Too Clever By Half

Google's unprecedented lapse - On August 3, a bug in Google's automated security system disabled hundreds, and probably thousands, of Blogger blogs. ¶ [image: A classical portrait of ...
Precise Thinking

The Jews and Antisemitism - In May of 1953, two first-grade girls were waiting for a school bus at the corner of a quiet suburban street.
Science of Doom

The Last 0.2%: Solar, Batteries and the Cost of Eliminating Gas - A ten-year thought experiment across South Australia, Victoria and NSW
Stu-Topia

Willingly - Stuart K. Hayashi I keep hearing from Sam Harris fans that neuroscience proves that humans don’t have free will. They want me to mull over their case and c...
Why not reason?

Learning to Meet People Where They Are - Lots of group chats I am part of consist of Brazilian people.
Don't Let It Go

The Sunshine Redistribution Act - On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (“SPA”) by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would abolish the twice-yearly clock ...
News - Democracy Action

SUBMISSION ON THE INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL - *To:* Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee *Submitted by:* Democracy Action Inc. PO Box 87141 Meadowbank 1742
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
The Enlightened Examiner

No. 1 - Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
In Due Course

On becoming less full of shit - This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in...
Africa’s Bright Future

Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You - Most people think regulations protect the poor. The data says the opposite.
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

In Roosevelt’s Arena - PERC joins America's conservation leaders at the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library The post In Roosevelt’s Arena appeared firs...
Building the Builders

Gena Gorlin and Linda Mann on building a life of art - A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video
Roberto’s Substack

Religion, Power, and Liberty: When Faith Seeks to Rule - The steadfast gaze of one who refuses to be silenced before the whip: the beauty and pride of Parastoo Ahmadi are the very translation of resistance agains...
Keith Weiner Economics

The Declared Principle of America - With the recent 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I thought it was appropriate to write about the key idea, the Declared Princ...
Freethink Media

Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year - Special Issue Release: The Opt-Out Nation
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Twisted Teens: Florida Water Blues - Way back in 1963 in his liner notes to the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, the PR man/reviewer Tony Barrow opened his extensive liner essay with “...
Matua Kahurangi

Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, today in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system.
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

From Fireworks to Flying Flags - And Other Symbols of Liberty
Splitting Headache

How skills, agents, and other AI features work - It’s prompts all the way down
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

mudslide - on getting swept up in other people's concerns
Andrew Bernstein

Video: A Case Against Determinism-with Professor Andrew Bernstein and James Valliant -
Roots of Progress

Progress in Medicine, the Roots of Progress Institute’s new summer career exploration program, has started - 30 high school students are learning about the history and future of medicine, biotech, health Starting June 15th, the Roots of Progress team brought tog...
Flying Out

Hotter Than July (Secondhand Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *SECONDHAND *Type: *STEVIE WONDER *Price: * 20.00 Artist: Stevie Wonder Year: 1980 Genre: Funk / Soul Sub-Genre: Soul, Disco Tracklist: A1. Di...
Earthly Idealism

The Effective Egoist Case for Freedom - It is striking, sad, and not at all surprising how little interest there is in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Demsetz on the neoclassical model - In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclassical model succ...
Jackson Upmann

How Traveling Raised My Confidence (And Can Raise Yours Too) - Time to get uncomfortable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

AICOA’s heavy-handed approach would harm consumers, stifle innovation, and degrade security and privacy - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) re-introduced a modified version of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), w...
Kibao

Kenya Wants to Sell Your Data. But It’s Complicated. - The headline is scarier than the policy. The policy is still worth worrying about.
misfits' architecture

Relationship Issues - We humans aren’t good at imagining things outside our experience so it’s only human that we’ve now gone and built this thing called AI that’s not good at i...
Martini Mandate

Teetotallers and the Decline of Human Civilisation. - Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus of busybodies would like the rest of us to give it up completel...
round houses

utopian usonia - Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The hou...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Can AI Be The Thing That Finally Aligns Humanity? - Getting AI to do what we want is the easy part. The real challenge is figuring out what we actually want in the first place.
Spiked Online

Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer - The post Summer Appeal Donation – Pint Glass Offer appeared first on spiked.
Classical Compass Rose

The Practice of Integrated Human Attention - The Benedictine Rule and the hesychast tradition of Mount Athos are the most rigorously tested models of integrated attention ever developed. What might we...
Note to Noteworthy

What Spirituality Really Means - Is spirituality about “God” or something else?
Yes In Our Backyards

The “Great Upzoning” of New Zealand’s cities, in two charts - Taking stock of 15 years of remarkable progress
Syncretica

Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition - batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Craig Biddle

Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles - The post Some Questions Regarding ARI’s Claims and Alleged Principles appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Fizzifood

Fragrant Lamb & Coconut Curry - Jonny – this one’s for you! I love a good butter chicken (not that sickeningly sweet version – I’m talking about the deeply aromatic and creamy type). Some...
Notes On Liberty

Rising Sun Over the Arctic: Japan’s Arctic Journey from North Pacific Hegemon to Democratic Polar Partner - by Barry Scott Zellen
Pablo’s Translations

Los científicos analizan la estabilidad del universo tras la desaparición de Chuck Norris - Expertos analizan si las leyes de la física y la estabilidad del universo cambiarán tras la muerte de Chuck Norris y el fin de sus "Condiciones". ¡Descúbrelo!
Seiler on Science

Teaching Physics Inductively - James Ellias’s Inductive Summary of Physics
Democracy Project

Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s next steps as Middle East war escalates - New Zealand is once again feeling the fallout of a geopolitical crisis. With a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, oil prices soared past t...
The Prophet of Causation

A Morality of Choice - There is a great deal of work left to do to turn the completed draft of The Prophet of Causation into a published book, including sorting through all the t...
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Growing to Truth

Help has arrived. - After almost 50 years of chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”…
Objective Standard Institute

MAGA Isn’t Making America Great - Kiyah breaks down her views on Trump and the MAGA movement.
Overthinking Everything

On Mediocrity - One of the harshest words in my vocabulary is "mediocre". Let me tell you what I mean by it.
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

W - Kanopi deleted page W Removing all content created by Kapitalizt
High Capacity

Does China care about AGI? - Chinese tech leaders and researchers talk openly about AGI. But Chinese policymakers don't seem focused on the "race to AGI" like in the US.
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Good News Story. - *Gospel:* What, after all, is a magic spell, if not a formulation of words to effect actual change in the real world? Wasn’t that why the Greek followers ...
The China Space Monitor

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Space Program - Plus overseas announcements from Star.Vision, GeeSpace, and SpaceIoT, lots more SatNet Satellites, and a Zhuque-3 partial success (plus me on TV!)
Boom (UK)

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
Catherine Mosse

Inflation: an economic problem or a source of political polarization? - In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains how inflation polarizes society by creating a sense of injustice.As inflation accelerates, peop...
M.M.E.F. News

Great news!! MMEF have secured a permanent home for the AMI 3-6 Diploma, starting in April 2026 - Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters, Yes, we used two exclamation marks in our headline above--that's because we are so excited! Our latest news, whi...
A City for People

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
Folarinism

👀 🎧 New podcast: ALT BLACK POD - Three contrarian voices unpack the culture — identity, power, and the post-woke internet. Ft. Inaya Folarin Iman, Ralph Leonard and Renie Anjeh
StephenFranks.co.nz

Is free speech a right wing conspiracy? - When I was a left wing student, protesting against NZ’s Security Intelligence Service, the Vietnam War and other trending causes, it would have been inconc...
Plain Sight

Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies - While most debate on academic freedom concerns the question of what can be stated, argued, proffered and responded to – and how, such a focus has enabled a...
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Better things are possible

Progress on the Carrington (UNITEC) housing development - In 2023, I published the following post on the plans for the development of land that was formerly part of the Carrington UNITEC Campus.
Peter Winsley

How can more young people enter careers and fulfil their potential - Many young New Zealanders feel that a social contract has been breached. This tacit contract is that, if students worked and studied hard, the government ...
Musk Watch

Musk invokes "rape of Europe" in anti-immigrant rant - On X, Elon Musk has spent the past week cheering on anti-immigrant protests and political movements worldwide, including in England, Wales, Ireland, Japan,...
FDR Liberated

Designing an Effective Retail Checkout Counter to Enhance Customer Experience - A well-designed retail checkout counter is more than just a register—it’s one of the most important touchpoints in a customer’s shopping journey. It sets t...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Who are the voters swinging away from Christopher Luxon? - An investigation into the voters who switched from Labour to National in 2023 - and are trending away from the party now. Featuring a lot of charts.
Anton Zenith

I Learned to Be Still, and Life Got Louder - Finding the symphony hidden in the spaces between moments
Jack’s Substack

Good News for Euro 6 - New Zealand to import only Euro 6d vehicles from 2028
Science For Everyone

We've moved! - Science for Everyone is still at scienceforeveryone.science, but no longer on Substack
Fisheries – PERC

The National Environmental Policy Act and Climate Change Adaption Within Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies - This academic paper explores how NEPA may be hindering federal agencies from adapting to climate change. The post The National Environmental Policy Act ...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Article: "Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA" - Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA David Statistics: Posted by DavidC — Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:35 pm ---------------------...
Science for Health

Think glass is safer? It might actually have more microplastics than plastic bottles—because of the caps! - https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/drinks-in-glass-bottles-contain-more-microplastics-than-those-plastic-bottles-401316
The Upheaval

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Down to Earth Kiwi

DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated - It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

Tải App 33win – Lợi Ích Tuyệt Vời Khi Tải App - Tải app 33win chính là lựa chọn tối ưu dành cho những ai muốn tham gia giải trí mọi lúc, mọi nơi. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn chi tiết cách ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Skeptic

We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
Demystifying Science

Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
John Paquette

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
Rosie Campbell

I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
CEE – Econlib

Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
Case Closed

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
The Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
Creative Deduction

Libertarian Rescue Mission: Can Milei save the Peso? - Javier Milei shocked the political establishment when he romped to victory in the Argentine Presidential election in 2023. A proud anarcho-capitalist, he t...
Punishingly Haimona

Farewell (for now), and thank you. - Many lines from The Simpsons are imprinted in my brain, but there is one that I think about often.
Armas

The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

Attn. National Association of Realtors: You cannot go to hell fast enough for me. - “Baby, now that I’ve found you, I can’t let you go. I’ll build my world around you. I need you so, baby, even though you don’t need me. You don’t need me…”...
Dominic Frisby

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
The 13th Floor

Mousey And The Dreams Of Our Mothers’ Mothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview - Mousey is the nom-de-plum of Christchurch-based artist Sarena Close and she is just about to release her very personal third album, The Dreams Of Our Mot...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
Bawerk.net

Revolutionizing Financial Management: The Benefits and Features of Natco Credit Union’s Online Banking Services - In today's fast-paced digital age, convenience and accessibility are paramount, especially when it comes to... The post Revolutionizing Financial Managem...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Israel’s message to terrorists is simple: ‘Just stop attacking us’* Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah via exploding pagers and now walkie talkies are one of...
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Reviews - 13th Floor

WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
TVHE

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
Pirate Wires

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
Origin Stories

Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
The Great Recession Blog

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
Energy – PERC

Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
Matt Ridley - Blog RSS

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Rational Optimist

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
A gay man on gender and sexuality

What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
Anarchist History of New Zealand

1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Asian Invasion 2019

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Cactus Kate

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Bernard Darnton

Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

How to Deal with Your Psoriasis Symptoms - Learn more about psoriasis, its warning signs and how to treat it. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that can impact a person’s appearance, ...
American Consequences

The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!

Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
A Lady on Fire

How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
Organic Architecture + Design Archives

JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
The 1014

Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
Julian Burnside

Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
Reviving Reason

The Case for Vaccine Mandates—Refuted - Vaccination status doesn’t tell us whether a person poses a threat to others.
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
Catallaxy Files

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1828 – Championing Freedom

How to Boost Economic Growth and Sustain it? - Economic growth is nothing but GDP increase that refers to the combined value of products and services a country produces annually. So, obviously economi...
The Rational Capitalist

The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
No Minister

Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
Mish Talk

The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
Check Your Premises

Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ne...
'The Critic' Magazine

Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
Scott Holleran

Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors

By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
The Long Run

The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
Urban – PERC

Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
Kiwi Gun Blog

More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
Malthouse Blog

Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
Coffee House

In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
Mencken's Ghost

Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse (and Romanticism in Rock) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13145 Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drumm...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, January - Welcome to the next decade! Exciting, isn't it? There are some minor changes here too. From now on, I'll post some of my work on Medium –particularly work ...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
positive check

From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
Open Borders: The Case

Immigration Reform or Revolution? - The idea of unconditionally open international borders, and entirely free migration across them, faces a great deal of resistance. Resistance comes, not on...
Quote Unquote

Holding pattern - I am to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Press Club on Friday the 13th – speaker: Patrick Gower – so should have a report to post next week. Also th...
The Devil's Kitchen

Own Jones telling... - Via Timmy, I see that Owen Jones *keeps* writing articles... Why I am campaigning for Labour in this seismic election Presumably it's because you're an evi...
Irshad Manji

01/20/2020 – Atlanta, GA - MLK Day 2020: Irshad speaks at the official service to commemorate the 91st birthday and timeless legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sanctuar...
Legalize Privacy

CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

Travel Secrets: In Defense of Men’s Rights - The theme of the Travel Secrets trilogy is femininity. In book one, our heroine, Rachel, was battling her own demons as she conquered her misconception of ...
Thoughts from 40° South

The Evil of Equity - The New Zealand Government has caught the equity bug. Everywhere you look they are trying to achieve it. I asked a senior public servant recently what he ...
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

The Land of the Rising Sun: My Trip to Japan - Dr. Thomas Sowell has mentioned Japan and Scotland as miracles numerous times in his works, so I thought I will visit it. And was he correct, Japan really ...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
CapX Finance

14 Practical steps to improve Cash Flow - A positive cash flow keeps the heart of any business pumping, but a negative cash flow will eventually cause the business to fail. A growing business may...
from FEE

Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights - Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
Montessori Rocks

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
Cities Matter

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
The Sand Pit

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
Professor Werner

Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
sportreview.net.nz

Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
John P. McCaskey

Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
Planetizen

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Drinks and Drinking

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
Politics without God

The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
The PRODOS blog

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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